Body remodelling after slimming

Body remodelling after slimming

Losing a significant amount of weight, more than 30 kilos, is an extremely difficult and tiring result to achieve, for which one needs fortitude, perseverance, constant commitment and a great deal of help from professionals and loved ones. It is certainly a hard-earned and hard-won result, but also a great satisfaction with extraordinary positive effects on health.

Once the excess kilos have been lost, many people may think they have reached the finishing line, and indeed a great goal has been achieved, but it usually does not end there. After such a sustained weight loss, the excess skin, it is inevitable, remains and appears completely flabby and hollow. When the skin is considerably stretched over the years for a long period of time, in fact ,the collagen and elastin fibres are damaged and lose part of their ability to retract .When one loses as much as 30, 40, 50 kilos, it is inevitable that excess skin will remain on various parts of the body, which can cause both physical and psychological disturbances. Excess skin can in fact interfere with normal activities by restricting freedom of movement, but also by causing skin irritations and injuries. This is amplified by the negative effects it can cause on self-esteem, confidence and mood, especially after the great effort of losing weight.

Remedies

To improve the strength and elasticity of sagging skin, if a moderate amount of weight has been lost, training to rebuild muscle mass, the intake of certain nutrients, special attention to moisturising and the use of firming creams may be sufficient.

Usually, however, medical or surgical treatments are required to tighten sagging skin after a major weight loss. Remodelling, in aesthetic medicine, aims to restore the body's regular, beautiful profile with a series of techniques aimed at firming and restoring a healthy, toned appearance .The areas of the body most affected are usually the abdomen, arms, thighs and back, on which surgery is performed by removing excess skin.

Surgeries

Specific reshaping sur geries to reduce skin after significant weight loss are:

  • Abdominoplasty, which involves removing excess skin on the abdomen.
  • Lower body reshaping, i.e. in addition to the tummy, buttocks, hips and thighs.
  • Upper body res haping with removal of skin from the chest and back.
  • Medial thigh reshaping with removal of excess skin from the inner and outer thighs.
  • Brachioplasty involving removal of excess skin in the arm area.

The surgical route

In each case, the surgical path that allows a formerly obese person to regain a harmonious figure and full functionality takes place in several stages. There may be more than one operation to be undergone and include different body districts.

Itmust also be borne in mind that the tissues of a formerly obese person have lost elasticity, which makes everything more complicated and delicate. Even more important is the persistence of risk factors related to the former weight.

In any case, therefore, these are 'special' patients to be treated with special caution. That is why it is really important, in these cases perhaps more than in others, to rely on experienced, attentive, trained and specialised professionals.